Activity 3 – Week 12 (Analysing Learning Analytics – Students)
This experience is designed to create an analysis of the current market for Learning Analytics Ventures. Its purpose is to help you understand critical information in the analysis, design and evaluation of a social/learning analytics venture. Multiple roles are presented: students, educators, instructional designers, venture analysts, entrepreneurs, and investors.
You may respond to one or more of the categories as desired.
This Blog is dedicated for your response as a Student.
How would learning analytics/social analytics be helpful to you?
This question is a prompt. You may use it or respond in any other way.
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Posted in: Week 12: Social Analytics
mcquaid 5:17 pm on November 23, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
I could see a display of trending / current topics as a way for me to discover some related research classmates are using, ideas they may be talking about / searching. It might be a neat and quick way for me to see what’s going on without asking every single person or reading every single message.
Angela Novoa 6:03 pm on November 23, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
I could use learning analytics to know how my level of participation has been, if I have missed something. Also it would be useful for tracking what is going on with all the members of the class and the topics of the course. As Stephen mentioned it would be very useful for not needing to ask everything.
Angela.
Everton Walker 6:27 pm on November 23, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Clearly, I could use learning analytics as a tool to keep track of my progress and that of others. Through this, I will avoid the traffic of sifting through many posts to locate exactly what I want to see. Also I would be able to keep track of my fellow classmates’ topics of interest and what they are doing and discussing.
Everton
Deb Giesbrecht 6:43 pm on November 23, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Socrato is an interesting concept which personalizes learning on a different level. Customizing learning compliments the learning process – I could certainly use this in analyzing how I was doing and where my deficiencies were.Tracking my progress would assist on focusing my efforts. I have never used analytics before but certainly could see the benefits of having a personalized tutor to guide me.
Deb Kim 9:57 pm on November 24, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
In addition to the responses above, I could use learning analytics for social networking. I could keep track of my communication and that of others and use the information I gather from others to generate new information again.
Deb
jenaca 7:33 am on November 26, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Hi Deb,
I would also use the learning analytics for social networking, personal progressive tool as well as the others listed above.
Jenaca
David William Price 7:33 am on November 25, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
For me, it’s not just knowing what people are up to. Social networking is supposed to do that but I don’t find that it does. I think the lack of anonymity causes a lot of filtering and posturing in social networking which skews the “data”.
I would like to identify my own research interests and use analytics to find out where the most conversation on those topics is happening, and what the direction of those conversations is. By direction, I mean where they are going with an idea. We may all be researching a concept, but taking it in different directions.
Analytics may also identify historical trends. In my research, I’ve identified waves of studies over the years. Analytics could visualize those waves and help me zoom in on trends and characterize them. This is something we end up doing anyway, through hours of queries and readings, but it would be nice to get a quicker context, an advance organizer almost of research.